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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Access

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Name	Amazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparison	DolphinDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore	DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.	Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)
Primary database model	Key-value store	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models		Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.10 Rank #122   Overall #24   Key-value stores	Score 1.65 Rank #139   Overall #9   Time Series DBMS	Score 141.82 Rank #9   Overall #6   Relational DBMS
Website	aws.amazon.com/­simpledb	www.dolphindb.com	www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentation	docs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledb	www.dolphindb.com/­help	developer.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
Developer	Amazon	DolphinDB, Inc	Microsoft
Initial release	2007	2018	1992
Current release		v2.00.4, January 2022	1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial free community version available	commercial Bundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no
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Implementation language		C++	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows	Windows Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	yes
XML support Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.		no
Secondary indexes	yes All columns are indexed automatically	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like query language	yes but not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methods	RESTful HTTP API	JDBC JSON over HTTP Kafka MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC OPC DA OPC UA RabbitMQ WebSocket	ADO.NET DAO ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ Erlang Java PHP Python Ruby Scala	C# C++ Go Java JavaScript MatLab Python R Rust	C C# C++ Delphi Java (JDBC-ODBC) VBA Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	yes since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggers	no	no	yes since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none Sharding must be implemented in the application	horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	yes	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency can be specified for read operations	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application	yes	ACID but no files for transaction logging
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes but no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		yes
User concepts Access control	Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)	Administrators, Users, Groups	no a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003
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